Re: comments on the gtkmm -vcXX- naming convention

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 13:33 -0400, Philip Kovacs wrote:
> I installed the latest gtkmm Windows development package and I have
> some comments.
> 
> From the point of view of application developers who require gtkmm as
> a dependency,
> this new -vcXX- naming convention for the import libraries is a
> burden.

Do you mean a burden in general, or a burden for people who used it with
the old names?

> I have to rework my build systems to handle this new library naming
> convention; offer 
> end-users a switch to select VC80/90 and then link to the correct
> libraries after "assembling" 
> a library name based on the switch.
> 
> A better approach would have been to use the standard names we are
> accustomed to:
> cairomm-1_0.lib, sigc-2_0.lib, gtkmm-2_4.lib, etc. and creating
> separate installers targeting
> the required runtime.  The root of the installation tree would be the
> ONLY place where the
> runtime was indicated, e.g.:
> 
> C:\Program Files\Gtkmm-2.14.1-VC80
> 
> or
> 
> C:\Program Files\Gtkmm-2.14.1-VC90 
> 
> That way, you can easily point into the needed tree to link instead of
> having to rework
> build systems.
> 
> Also, I haven't built gtkmm from source since this changeover.  What
> naming convention
> do you use for the import libraries when building with MSVC?  Do you
> discover the runtime
> version automatically and name appropriately?
> 
> Really would have preferred to see my approach above....


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